>> Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Austin found the link on ebay, and he bought a Kyocera CD-i player last year as well. Austin: "Manufactured in Japan during May 1994 from what the bottom of the system says. Built like a rock from what I can tell, and it uses 1/8" jacks for it's audio and video-out. It also has an I/O port, plus the Mic port for the Karaoke stuff (no karaoke options built into the system though, so I guess this was done through external software or on a karaoke CD). It also has a "video-in" port, which is the most-interesting feature. Doing a little more testing, it seems like they dislike CD-R media as well. It is a NTSC player.I decided to hook this up today again to capture some footage. I ran into some issues though. Trying three games, one wouldn't load at all (Pyramid Adventures). The other two games, Lemmings and Zenith, failed to load certain background elements (usually the main part of the playfield, leaving a mostly black screen on both titles asides from your menu/scores).I don't know if this is a problem with the player itself (faulty, perhaps?), or if maybe there were cost-cutting measures made and it's not capable of playing standard games (clearly it was designed solely for professional use, so that doesn't seem far-off to me). I am most interested in finding whether my system is damaged in some way, or if perhaps it lacks elements that "normal" CD-i players feature, causing certain games to not display properly."There's no Digital Video Cartridge in this unit.

>> Tuesday, January 1, 2013

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The Interactive Dreams is a spin-off from The Black Moon Project, started in 2005 with various interviews and behind-the-scenes of developers who worked on CD-i and prototypes that never saw the light of day on CD-i. Over the years it also covered all mayor articles from other CD-i websites, mainly when websites were shut down, ceased to exist or asked us for hosting their archive materials. In this way, Interactive Dreams became the biggest CD-i archive about CD-i articles, prototypes, reviews and all kinds of trivia that was available on CD-i.

It appeared that in recent years (2012-2013), the interest in CD-i shifted more to an archive function rather than that new information was added to the database. We don't know what will happen in the coming period, but we will keep the workhorse alive to randomly update it with trivia and keeping the archive available for all those interested in the CD-i format.

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Welcome to the wonderful world of Interactive Dreams. You've just come to a warmhearted place all dedicated to the Philips CD-i. With attention to detail and quality, 2015 should see the rise of CD-i as a Retrogaming platform. For many CD-i has gone as a relative obscurity had it not been for the intervention of websites like The Black Moon Project and Interactive Dreams. Hopefully we're doing our bit to set the record straight along with all the other great CD-i projects.

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